The AI Generated Report That Almost Sparked War: A Cautionary Tale for Defense Tech The latest incident highlights the perils of relying on AI in high stakes decision making, particularly when it comes to national security.
According to a CNN report, a partially AI generated intelligence assessment nearly led the US military to attack a Chinese ship in the Middle East.
The analyst who generated this assessment used an AI chatbot to combine open source and secret signals intelligence, which concluded that the ship contained components of a nuclear weapons program.